SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
At the end of January, our 1st OWASP Chapter Vienna Meetup took place, featuring three excellent speaker sharing insights on LLM Security. ... Read More
End of October, we had our SBA Security Meetup on From OWASP to App Secrets Learned with to insightful talks from Fabian Funder (SBA Research) and David Schmidt (Universität Wien). ... Read More
On June 16th, SBA Research and the Security & Privacy group at University of Vienna hosted the Vienna Deep Learning Meetup (VDLM).
The event, attended by Deep Learning enthusiasts, comprised of a talk by Damian Stewart, who gave a Deep Dive into CLIP embeddings. CLIP embeddings are at the heart of many multimodal AI systems, as they map language to images. ... Read More
On February 25th we had our SBA Security Meetup @ Dynatrace in Vienna.
Catherine Easdon gave a talk on Security and Privacy by Design in the SDLC: Why, When, How?. She talked about security and privacy and why they are so important but tricky to get right. Read More
Mathias Tausig is information security consultant at SBA Research and gave an interesting talk on The monster in your basement: Security risks of CI/CD systems. Read More
In early March, the MATRIS Applied Research Consulting Team organized the second meetup of the Automotive Security Meetup series for the automotive community at SBA Research. The meeting format of the Automotive Security Research Group (ASRG Vienna) aims to foster discussion about ideas, methods,… Read More
Anastasia Pustozerova is researcher at SBA Research and gave an interesting talk on Differential Privacy for Machine Learning. Talk Abstract Machine Learning requires a lot of data to train effective models. Data owners might not be willing to share the data because of its private nature. Differential Privacy can… Read More
How to (not) do Red Teaming – an orientationOn the 20th of July this meetup answered the question: How do you improve IT security of your company with a limited budget? The most obvious way to test your security measures is to employ somebody who tries to do the… Read More
On the 4th of May, Rudolf Mayer gives a talk on Security of Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence at the Vienna Deep Learning Meetup. With machine learning increasingly being deployed within (semi-)autonomous systems and thus permeating our daily… Read More
Our colleague Nicholas Stifter, researcher and security analyst at SBA Research, presented his conference paper titled Reuse of Public Keys Across UTXO and Account-Based Cryptocurrencies at the Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026 in St. Kitts, USA. ... ∞
Tanja Sarcevic, Daryna Olyinyk, and Yelyzaveta Klysa, all MLDM research group members, and Sabina Khazari participated in the European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship organized by CISPA, one of Europe’s leading research centers in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Congratulations to them, they won 2nd place and qualified themselves to the grand finale that will be held in St. Ingbert, Germany, in June 2026. ... ∞